November 7, 2012

Who is monitoring Hank Williams Jr.?

November 7, 2012

CO and NV will do it without OH & FL

November 6, 2012

Early Voting Exit Polls Of Undecided Voters...

...indicate that many of them couldn't figure out where to insert a quarter to get the voting machine to play any songs they wanted to hear.

They are said to have been both disappointed and confused.

November 5, 2012

So, it all comes down to this one guy?

I haven't been paying close attention, but why does FOX think anyone is going to care what happened to Ben Gazzara?

November 4, 2012

"Fall Forward, Spring Back" - set your clock tonight!

Short night tonight - get enough sleep!

October 29, 2012

Is there a good MSNBC live feed other than Rockin' Roosters?

That feed is skipping all over the place from MSNBC, to a Comcast stationary camera, to CNBC.

I'm in a hotel, my flight back to Philly is cancelled, and it is really tough to get a good MSNBC live feed.

Al Jazeera has a guy in Rehoboth, Delaware, which Al Jazeera, unlike MSNBC, can actually spell.

October 27, 2012

Three Mile Island, The Susquehanna, and Sandy

I don't know who might remember Agnes, but there are some heavily populated flood prone zones in Pennsylvania and New York. If you are from those areas, ask your folks if they remember Agnes. It wasn't wind that was a problem, but the staggering amount of water she dumped.

Some time ago, I posted on DU some pictures I snapped of the screen of an Exelon consulting civil engineer who was seated diagonally from me on his way to a presentation to management. Long story short from what I shoulder-surfed and captured is that the river model around which the flood defenses from TMI is designed, is obsolete. Other river projects and changed drainage have increased the "100 year flood" model by several feet.

While there are some stopgap measures in place, the presentation was apparently prepared to explain the expense of proposed improvements to TMI flood protection.

The guy had a sense of humor, as his first slide, before he edited it, said:

"Hey, let's build a nuclear plant in the middle of a river; right near an airport, and next to the capital of Pennsylvania!"

Pretty funny.

Anyway, a whole lot of this storm is going to end up dumping into the Susquehanna.

October 21, 2012

My iPhone spell check prefers "marihuana"

I thought "marijuana" was more popular.

Which do you prefer?

October 21, 2012

Since when is the White House supposed to be a public conduit for live intel?

In an emerging situation with the perpetrators at large, what useful purpose is served by providing live reports of what is known?

That seems to be the premise of Romney's whole Libyan schtick - that the White House is not providing instantaneous reportage of what we know about terrorist operations.

Are we supposed to think that would be a good idea in all circumstances?

Even if he was correct, I still wouldn't get the point.

October 11, 2012

I'd like to see the president go a little lower on Intrade

I put off buying at 54 last time around and have been kicking myself since. If I can get a 45% upside, I'm going large.